FIRST RESPONDER FOR

TOURIST RELATED CASES

 SEQUENCE OF PRESENTATION

• Functions and Responsibilities of First

Responders
• Protocol in Handling Tourist Cases
• PNP Efforts in Ensuring the Safety and
Security of Tourist (Foreign and Local)
• Other Responsibilities of Tourist Police
 FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF
FIRST RESPONDER

 Proceed to the crime scene to validate info;

 Record the exact time of arrival and all pertinent data
regarding the incident then notify the TOC;
 Self-preservation;
 Secure and preserve the crime scene;
 Check whether the situation still possess imminent
danger and call for back-up, if necessary;
 Evacuate injured person/s;
 FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF
FIRST RESPONDER
 Proceed to the crime scene to validate info;
 Record the exact time of arrival and all
pertinent data regarding the incident then notify
the TOC;
 Self-preservation;
 Secure and preserve the crime scene;
 Check whether the situation still possess
imminent danger and call for back-up, if
necessary;
 Evacuate injured person/s;
 FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF FIRST
RESPONDER

 Prevent entry / exit of person/s within the cordoned

area;
 Account/note for the killed, wounded & arrested
persons for proper disposition;
 Briefs & assists the investigator-on-case upon
arrival and turn over the crime scene;
 Conducts inventory on the evidence noted at
the crime scene; inventory receipt should be
properly signed by the first responder. SOCO team
leader and the investigator-on-case; and
 Attend to court duty.
PROTOCOL IN HANDLING
TOURISTS CASES
• Administrative Circular No.58-2002 (Requiring an
Expeditious Disposition of Criminal Cases Involving
Tourists)

 Courts to dispose cases “within 24 hours after filing

be the arresting officers; and
 Creation of Night Courts or Special Tourist Courts
exclusively to attend to tourist related crimes.

Note:

PNP to coordinate with the judiciary in your respective

areas of jurisdiction and enjoin them to operationalize the
Night Courts or Special Courts exclusively to attend to
tourist-related crimes. At the same time, institute programs
to strengthen the PNP’s resolve to stop all forms of crimes
against tourist.
• Expansion of TF USIG Mandate: Inclusion of Death
of Foreign Nationals (DFNs)
DFNs are any of the following circumstances:

1. violent or intentional means

2. natural causes (ex. old age, illness etc.)
3. accidental causes (ex. drowning, calamities, etc.)
4. suicide

- All PROs shall adhere to the policy and guidelines in mandatory

reporting of all cases of death of foreign nationals.

- Immediately transmittal of initial reports of the case.

- Includes report cases of missing and found cadaver of foreign

nationals to TF, USIG Secretariat, DIDM.
•CMC 09-2012 (Submission of Incident Reports Involving Foreign Nationals)

PURPOSE:

Provides implementing guidelines in

the proper submission of incident reports
and updates on foreign nationals involved
in crimes either as suspect/s or victim/s.

• 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular

Relations (VCCR)
- Philippines was a signatory.
CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS:

1. Significant incidents (arrests and detentions) must be sent

simultaneously to FLD-DI through its official mobile phone
within one hour after the incident, particularly those involving
foreign nationals.
2. Written reports can be sent directly by concerned police line
units that have available internet connectivity or facsimile to the
official email address of FLD-DI or through fax machine within
24 hours after the incident. There shall be eight hours period of
reporting from PS/MPS/CPS to PPP/CPO, PPO/CPO to PRO
and PRO to NHQ-PNP (DI). NHQ-PNP DI to Embassy. DFA
and BID.
3. Progress reports/updates on a particular case or any
information relative to the conduct of investigation being
required by concerned embassies should directly forwarded to
DIDM.DIDM shall in turn forward the said update/progress
report to concerned embassies or any other requesting party
as the case may be (copy furnished DI).
 TIMEFRAME ON THE SUBMISSION OF
WRITTEN INCIDENTS REPORTS
INVOLVING FOREIGN NATIONALS
PNP UNIT REQUIRED TIME RECIPIENT
FOR SUBMISSION OFFICE/UNIT

MPS/CPS Within 8 hours PRO

PPO/CPO Within 8 hours PRO
PRO Within 8 hours DI
NOSUs Within 24 hours DI
PNP EFFORTS IN ENSURING
THE SAFETY AND SECURITY
OF TOURIST
(FOREIGN AND LOCAL)
• MANAGING POLICE OPERATIONS
- Institute police patrols not only in crime prone
areas but also in tourist destinations.

• INTENSIFICATION OF OTHER FORMS OF

POLICE OPERATIONS

- Maximize police presence on major roads from airports to

hotel for arriving tourist especially at night time.
• CREATION OF KOREAN DESK

- Under the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)

with an assigned Korean Police Officer which is tasked to receive
complaints of Korean nationals.

• PNP MC 2017-020 “STRENGTHENED BANTAY TURISTA”

- Sets forth the operational guidelines and concept of operations to

be undertaken by the PNP to upgrade the safety and security of tourist
(both local and foreign) and provide more peaceful, orderly, and
secured tourist spots, destination, and recreation areas nationwide .
• CREATION OF THE MAJOR CRIME INVESTIGATION
UNIT (MCIU)

- Is created under CIDG to resolve cold cases, a case that has

no development or progress for at least 6 months.

• CREATION OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION TASK

GROUP (SITG)

- SITG is created temporarily to investigate sensational or

heinous crimes. This shall be organized whether at the Regional
or Provincial/City Police Office or at the highly urbanized cities
depending on how sensational or heinous the crime is/ and or
upon order/direction of C, PNP.
 • EXPANDED MANDATE - PNP TASK FORCE
“USIG”

- Includes monitoring of cases of death of foreign nationals thru

violent means.

• PNP LOI 56/2011 TASK FORCE DIPLOMATIC

SECURITY - REVISED

- Prescribes the coverage and public security services to be

provided by the PNP in securing all foreign missions and
diplomatic communities including their embassies, residences, and
installation in Metro Manila and other parts of the country.
• FOREIGN NATIONAL KEEPER NETWORK
(FNKN)

- A program of the PNP wherein foreign nationals were

recruited by the local police units to act as point of contact
between the police and their embassies to relay important
information relating to their safety and security while in the
country.
• RA 9593 OR THE TOURISM ACT OF 2009
- The legal basis for the creation of TPUs.
Section 100.Peace and Order - The Philippine National Police
shall establish a Tourism Security Force to assist in maintaining
peace and order within areas of high tourism traffic. A tourist
police assistance office shall likewise be established in such
areas.
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES
OF TOURIST POLICE
RELATIVE TO TOURIST
SAFETY
 OTHER TOURIST POLICE RESPONSIBILITIES
ACTIVITIES
1. PATROLLING WITHIN TOURIST SPOTS WITHIN AOR;

2. IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION IN ANY TOURIST COMPLAINTS;

3. PROVIDE INFORMATION ON TRAVEL SECURITY;

4. ENSURE HASSLE FREE TRIP BE KEEPING AWAY STREET CHILDREN FROM

TOURIST;

5. ASSIST TOURIST WHENEVER NEED ARISES;

6. INSPECT (SUPERVISE) OVER HOTEL, TRAVEL, TREKKING AND RAFTING

AGENCIES;

7. PROVIDE TOURISM RELATED INFORMATION; AND

8. FORWARD RELATED CRIMINAL CASES FOR LEGAL PROCEDURE

CONSULTING WITH CONCERNED EMBASSY.
 END OF
PRESENTATION